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In today's IT-driven business environment, new products and services can be delivered through changes in the business logic. In an agile business this business logic changes much more frequently than other application code. Often non-programmers like business analysts define the new logic. To model this reality in the application, software architects increasingly use business rules to separate business logic from application code. These rules provide a declarative way of expressing business logic so that even non- programmers can understand it.

The successful adoption of SOA concepts within an enterprise results in a collection of services and a set of consumers - on-premise, in the cloud, or with external partners. Although this diversity delivers attractive plus points such as lower costs, high reliability, and maximum flexibility, it also raises security concerns which can compromise sensitive data and even the system itself. Paying attention to these vulnerabilities is crucial - starting from the early stages of development and preserving the important benefits of SOA.

Lock-in is a good thing for software vendors - ensuring a captive customer base and premium revenue streams. But for software consumers, lock-in acts as a degenerative force over time. It can gradually lead to higher costs, lack of choice, barriers against agility and flexibility, and sometimes ultimately the loss of large investments.

The recent release of WSO2 Carbon helps software architects and developers to seamlessly add product capabilities to their enterprise middleware projects as they grow. At the heart of Carbon is the ability to mix and match components from separate key functional areas to adapt the platform to your specific needs.

Integrating complex enterprise applications has never been an easy task. Applications rely on different programming languages, run on different platforms and use different communication protocols. The ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) pattern addresses connections in this diverse environment. An ESB provides fundamental services for complex integration architectures.

Gone are the days where you have to wait for days to get servers to deploy your applications or wait for infrastructure team to open up a port so the team on other end of the world can access your application. With WSO2 Stratos, building, demonstrating, testing and hosting your application will never be the same.

Rules: Fun? Or tedious? It all depends on whether you have to simply endure them--or if you get to write them. We all prefer the second option--to have fun, right?

What is a business process? A series of steps that need to be performed in order to provide goods or services. Processes that used to be performed by humans are becoming increasingly automated by enterprise IT, allowing them to be performed more quickly and reliably and at much greater scale.